Memorable Chicago moments: "Bears and Bulls games were always my kind of thing." He sat through most of the Michael Jordan era and was at Super Bowl XLI, which the Bears lost to Indianapolis. "That was devastating. The first 10 seconds were great though."

Wants to score a goal on: Brett Favre

If he didn't play soccer: "I like to think I'd be playing baseball, I was decent. If you're not thinking sports? I'd probably be a bum."

The University of Illinois' rescinded job offer to a professor and a controversy over a faculty blog at Chicago State University helped land the two schools on a 2014 "worst of" list for student and faculty free speech rights.

Rep. Aaron Schock billed taxpayers at least three times for a total of more than $14,000 in private air travel last fall, including for a trip to a Chicago Bears football game, The Associated Press has learned.